This file details how to replicate 
all models and Figures
in "Coordinating Nominations: 
How to Deal with an Incumbent
Surplus after Electoral Reform"
Author: Jochen Rehmert

Cite: Rehmert, Jochen (forthcoming): 
"Coordinating Nominations: 
How to Deal with an Incumbent
Surplus after Electoral Reform", 
Japanese Journal of Political Sciences


R version: 4.0.2 (2020-06-22) (Windows)

In the R Scripts below a range of libraries
and packages are used and may have to be 
installed first.

List of data:
	- coordination1.dta
	Contains information on candidates
	and their potential districts
	to run in in 1996

	- coordination2.dta
	Contains information at the
	prefectural level about
	"nomination failure"

	- coordination3.dta
	Contains information on 1993
	candidates type of candidacy 
	in 1996

	- coordination4.dta
	Contains information in which 1996
	districts the LDP nominated a new
	candidate
	
	- coordination5.dta
	Contains information on all LDP/
	LDP-leaning candidates from 1955-1996
	
	- dist_char.dta
	Contains information on which
	1996 districts are patchwork-districts

	- JEDS_data.dta
	Contains the JEDS survey data

List of R Script:
	- nomination_district.R
	Needs coordination1.dta and replicates
	Tables 1, 8 (appendix), 9 (appendix) & 
	10 (appendix)
	as well as Figures 2 & 3

	- nomination_newcandidate.R
	Needs coordination4.dta and replicates
	Table 7 (appendix)

	- runningt1.R
	Needs coordination5.dta and replicates
	Table 5 (appendix)

	- JEDS_analysis.R
	Needs JEDS_data.dta and dist_char.dta and replicates 
	Table 3 (appendix)

	- assumptions_test.R
	Needs coordination1.dta to run assumptions test
	for the IIA and the distribution of predicted
	probabilities. Replicates Figure 4

List of Stata Do-Files:
	- nomination_list.do
	Needs coordination3.dta and replicates
	Tables 2 and 11 (appendix)

